Tag: blackened death metal

wurmian - immemorial shrine
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Wurmian: Immemorial Shrine (2025)

As I get older I get more and more discerning about metal, especially metal that I want to put my name on as a reviewer. I’m known mostly as the old school guy, the retro rock and stoner metal and 80s thrash guy, but there’s a huge piece of my heart that falls for black and death metal. And over the past few years Inherits The Void has been really nailing that certain something I look for in modern black metal. So where I found out that Antoine Scholtes, the main behind that was putting his energies into a new project called Wurmian, and that it would be focused on more death/doom I was instantly intrigued…only to have my colleague Colin over at Nine Circles grab the promo and churn out a very positive review. Well, joke’s on you Colin1, because now I have Immemorial Shrine on CD which makes it a valid entry for the site and, guess what? I might even like it better than the already stellar work Scholtes is doing in Inherits The Void.

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archgoat - heavenly vulva ep
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Archgoat: Heavenly Vulva/Christ’s Last Rites EP (2011)

There’s some stuff to unpack here, so I’ll get the particulars out of the way first.  This was my first exposure to Archgoat, and it was somewhat accidental: Debemur Morti Productions was running an inventory sale where for something like $25 you would get five random CDs.  The Heavenly Vulva EP was one fo them, and I’ll admit that one look at the cover key me at arm’s length from wanting to check it out.  I maybe gave it one listen, didn’t have a real opinion on it one way or another so left it to sit on a shelf in my closet in a stack to gather dust. Continue reading “Archgoat: Heavenly Vulva/Christ’s Last Rites EP (2011)”

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